Combined curtain-pole and shade-roller bracket



(No Model.) I

W. C. HOU SER.

COMBINED CURTAIN POLE AND SHADE ROLLER BRACKET. No. 692,113. Patented Oct. 19, 1897.

llNr rno STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

Y WESLEY C. HOUSER, OF COLUMBUS, OIIIO.

coMelNi-ao CURTAIN-POLE AND SHADE-ROLLER BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,113, dated October 19, 1897'.

Application filed April 29, 1896.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WESLEY O. HOUSER, a

v citizen of the United States, residing at C0- lumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Combined Curtain-Pole and Shade-Roller Bracket, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvement of combined curtain-pole and shade holding brackets.

The objects of my invention are to provide a bracket of this character of superior form and construction which will be adapted for permanent connection with the window and door frames of a building, to so construct the same as to provide for its being adjusted. to receive shade-rollers and curtain-poles of different lengths, and to'produce other improvements in details of construction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter; These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view in elevation of my improved brackets, showing the same as supporting both a curtain-pole and shade-roller, said pole and roller being broken away centrally for convenience in illustration. Fig. 2 is an end view of one of my improved brackets, showing a sectional view of a portion of the window-frame with which said bracket is connected. Fig. 3 is a face view of one of the bracket ends. Fig. 4. is a detail View in perspective of a modified form of shade-rollholding arm.- Fig. 5 is an end view of one of the brackets, showing the shade-roll socket therein. Fig. 6 is a plan view of one of my improved bracket-arms; and Fig. 7 is a face view of one end of the bracket rod or bar, showing a modified form of socket therein.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several Views.

In the construction of each of my improved brackets I employ a bracket bar or rod 1, which may be round or -angular in cross-section, as may be desired. On the inner end of the banal is formed a head 2, in which is provided either OblOIl or round to receive the proper spindle of an nrdinary curtain-shade roller 4..

5 represents asuitably-shaped sleeve which a ocket 3, the latter being formed Serial No. 589,575. (No model.)

is adapted to fit and slide on the bar 1-, said sleeve being provided with a screw-hole through which is adapted to pass a' set-screw 6, the inner end of the latter being adapted to engage with the surface of the bar 1 and thereby insure the sleeve in 'a desirable position on said bar. From the sleeve 5 rises a pole-supporting arm or rod 7, the latter terminating in a hook or loop 8. Between the sleeve 5 and the head 2 of the bar is supported on the latter an attaching-arm 9, the inner projecting end of the latter terminating in a screw or other ordinary attaching projection 10. The out'eren'd of the arm 9 is provided with a screw-hole into which is inserted a set-screw 11, the inner end of the taching device into said framework, these brackets being so arranged as to cause the head portions of the bars 1 to face each'other in the manner indicated more clearly in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The upwardly-projecting arms 7 are adapted to support in their hook or loop ends any ordinary form of curtainpole 12. Owing to the fact that the arm-supporting sleeves 5 are adjustable on the rods 7, it is obvious that said arms may be made to accommodate poles of varying lengths by shifting the sleeve inward or outward on its bar.

-The inner ends'or heads 2 of the rods or bars 1 being provided with shade-roller-spindle sockets which are respectively round and angular, it is obvious that an ordinary springactuated shade-roller, such as is indicated at 4, maybe supported between the ends of the bracket-arms 1 in an operative position.

Owing to the factthat said bracket-arms are adjustable in the attaching-arms 9, it is obvious that shade-rollers of different lengths may be accommodated.

As indicated in Fig. 4. of the drawings, the bracket-bar 1 may be provided at its inner end with a projecting arm 13, which is adapted to extend on the inner side of the window frame or casing and which is provided at its termination with a socket 14, adapted to receive the end of a shade-roller spindle. This arm 13 may be provided with an elongated slotted opening therethrough, such as is indicated at 15, and said slotted arm may be adjustably attached to the end of the bar 1 by means of a clamping-screw l6,which passes through said slotted opening and enters a screw-hole in the end of said bar.

It is obvious that the last form of bracketarm described will be of utility where it is desired to support the shade-roller between the inner faces of the windoi frame or adjacent to the window-sash.

As indicated in Fig. 7, one of the heads 2 may be provided with cross-sockets which will permit of the angular or squared shaderoller spindle, which is adapted to be inserted therein, being supported in either one of two positions.

It is evident that brackets of the construction herein shown and described are particularly adapted as permanent window-frame brackets and that by their use as such the marring of window-frames by the removal and attachment of the ordinary brackets will be entirely obviated.

Owing to the fact that my improved brackets are adjustable, it is evident that they are designed to accommodate both curtain-poles and shade-rollers of varying lengths without removal of the brackets.

Having now fully described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a shade-roller and curtain-pole bracket the combination with the rod or bar 1 and an adjustable fastening-arm 9 mounted thereon, of an adjustable sleeve 5 mounted on said bar, a pole-supporting arm '7 extending from said sleeve and an arm 13 adjustably connected with the inner end of said bar 1 and a shade-roller-holding socket or projection on the outer end of said arm 13, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of a shade-rollerbraeket provided with a screw rigidly attached to its end, the sleeves, the extension-shafts, the pole-brackets and the drapery-pole held in place by the brackets substantially as described.

\VESLEY O. HO USER.

In presence of- O. O. SHEPHERD, G. A. GASKILL. 

